He also said:
I would lay down my very life for one to whom I am so lavish with my own self,
yet he begrudges me a mere greeting of salām;
My doom lies hidden in the pupils of his eyes
just as death lies hidden in the sword’s keen edge. ⦗1⦘

Muhammad ibn Hānī ⦗2⦘ al-Andalusī, the poet: al-Muʿizz the Fāṭimid had taken him along from Qayrawān when he set out for Egypt, but while they were still on the road Muhammad ibn Hānī was found murdered, his body cast upon the seashore, in Rajab of this very year. He was a consummate poet, powerful in composition, yet more than one scholar declared him an unbeliever because of the extremes he reached in his panegyrics. Among his most objectionable lines in praise of al-Muʿizz—may Allah disfigure them both—are these:
Whatever you will comes to pass, not what destinies decree;
so judge, for you are the One, the All-Compelling.
This is a grave error and open disbelief.

He also said:
Many a time has Gabriel been crowded
beneath your stirrup.

Another of his verses is the following. Ibn al-Athīr remarks that he did not find it in the printed Dīwān:
At Barqāda ⦗3⦘ the Messiah alighted;
Adam and Noah alighted there as well.
There too alighted God, the Lord of Sublime Majesty;
everything besides Him is but drifting wind.

Ibn al-Athīr adds: Some of his partisans have begun devising excuses for him; Allah knows best. ⦗4⦘

I say: If these lines are truly his, no excuse can be offered—neither in the Hereafter nor in this world.

Among those who also died this year was Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sakhtawayh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzakkī ⦗5⦘, one of the foremost ḥuffāẓ, who spent generously in the pursuit of hadith.